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• Tue 22 Oct, 2019 - Tue 31 Dec, 2019 Alumni, Friends, Membership, Samuel Courtauld Society

  

  Friends event: Jan Six XI and his Rembrandt discoveries

  Our cultural partner, The Dutch Cultural Centre, is thrilled to announce that in the year that marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death, Jan Six, art historian, Old Masters dealer and direct descendant of Jan Six…

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• Fri 15 Nov, 2019 - Sat 16 Nov, 2019 Architecture Cultures, Global Early Modern: Connecting Cultures, Research Forum

  

  Decentring the Flâneur: global histories of walking the early m...

  Speakers Professor Çiğdem Kafescioğlu , R. Aslıhan Aksoy-Sheridan , David Karmon , Saundra Weddle , Peyvand Firouzeh , Nuno Grancho , Marika Takanishi Knowles , Marie Yasunaga , Stephen Whiteman

  Ideas about the origins and context for the flâneur have been tied to Paris, and viewed through the lens of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. While Benjaminian orthodoxy has increasingly been challenged, the association of the flâneur with…

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• Fri 15 Nov, 2019 Documenting Fashion, Research Forum

  

  Dress Talks with Connie Gray

  Speaker: Connie Gray

  The discipline of fashion illustration once dominated the pages of Jardin des Modes, L’Officiel, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar & Women’s Wear Daily. The works of the masters of the genre including Gruau, Bouché, Eric, Bérard, Block…

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• Mon 18 Nov, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

  

  ‘Art and Narrative’: Competing Narratives About Ame...

  Speaker: Winfried Fluck

  In interpreting visual culture, including American art, we face an irritating dilemma: On the one hand, we value visual culture because it can create the impression of an immediate experience that the written word cannot…

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• Tue 19 Nov, 2019 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Research Forum

  

  Emergent evacuations?: African women’s corporate bodies and art...

  Speaker: Ikem Stanley Okoye

  Please join us for our fourth Frank Davis Memorial Lecture of 2019. The contradictory logics of colonialism can be understood to have been anxiety-producing in relation to bodily sovereignty, most especially for African women. However,…

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• Wed 20 Nov, 2019 Research Forum, Word and Image

  

  Questioning topographies in word and image: Pierre Alechinsky a...

  Speakers include: Dr Caroline Levitt, Dr Sheila McTighe

  This seminar marks the first public event of the newly formed ‘Word and Image’ research cluster, and showcases the importance of word and image relationships across different periods and cultures. The speakers will present work…

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• Wed 20 Nov, 2019 Medieval and Renaissance, Research Forum

  

  The Renaissance Superstructure

  Speaker: Dr Morgan Ng

  This seminar charts the sixteenth-century reinvention of what I call superstructures: an originally medieval typology of elevated defensive corridors that once traversed many European cities. Suspended above the chaos of the street, such pathways provided…

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• Sat 23 Nov, 2019 Art History Short Courses

  

  William Hazlitt and Art in Britain – Saturday Study Day

  Speakers include: Dr Uttara Natarajan, Dr Anne Puetz

  Our Saturday Study Events offer an intense engagement with works of art in their cultural contexts. They are led by one, two or more expert speakers and happen once a term. The next Saturday Study…

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• Tue 26 Nov, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

  

  Historizing Art in California

  Speaker: Jenni Sorkin

  California’s art history has largely been told through exhibitions, catalogs, and art criticism. This behind-the-scenes talk is a special preview of the in-process book, Art in California, which is being written expressly for the Thames &…

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